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The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.

Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution.

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded against his throne." Milton. Banded architrave, pier, shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

specially when made as an ornamental piece of furniture. [U.S.] Bureau system. See Bureaucracy. -- Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussel…

Of, relating to, or resembling, a bureaucracy.

An advocate for , or supporter of, bureaucracy.

igue. By cursed cabals of women. Dryden. Syn. - Junto; intrigue; plot; combination; conspiracy. -- Cabal, Combination, Faction. An association for some purpose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resis…

Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.

nol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inbabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

gainst (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

sation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. I know their complot is to have my life. Shak.